At the service of literary translators: the project BabelMatrix has entered a new phase

Ever since its creation shortly after the turn of the millennium, the project BabelMatrix has undergone several transformations, and it continues to grow.

Kertész's Dossier K now out in English

The first and only memoir from the Nobel Prize-winning author, in the form of an illuminating, often funny, and often combative interview—conducted by the author of himself. Imre Kertész’s response to the hasty biographies and profiles that followed his 2002 Nobel Prize.

Best Translated Book Award 2013 goes to Satantango

George Szirtes’s translation of László Krasznahorkai’s Satantango is the winner of the Best Translated Book Award, founded by the literary website Three Percent at the University of Rochester, NY.

Exhibition on Frigyes Karinthy

“This crazy guy was the greatest genius among us”, Dezső Kosztolányi said about his friend Frigyes Karinthy. A new exhibition at the Petőfi Museum of Literature in Budapest focuses on Karinthy’s life and works, showcasing photos, manuscripts, objects and technical devices.

20th International Book Festival Budapest

The International Book Festival Budapest, a major event of the Central European region, will be held between 18 and 21 April 2013 with almost a hundred participants from twenty-five countries.

Hungarian presence at the Salon du Livre, Paris 2013

As part of the Balassi Institute’s Publishing Hungary programme, several works of classical and contemporary Hungarian literature were launched in French translation at the Salon du Livre in Paris last week.

Hungarian presence at the 2013 Leipzig Book Fair

The next event in the Publishing Hungary programme, sponsored by the National Cultural Fund of Hungary, will be the Hungarian presence at the Leipzig Book Fair, one of the greatest literary events in Europe. The book fair will be held between 14 and 17 March, 2013.

Hungarian writers at the Jerusalem Book Festival

Four Hungarian writers – György Spiró, György Dragomán, Gábor Schein and Géza Röhrig – were guests at the Jerusalem Book Festival, held between 10-15 February 2013.

Surviving Voronezh: in the footsteps of Örkény

"I don't get to the Opera as often as I'd like. I'm too busy crawling on my belly, wiping out my fellow men", István Örkény wrote from the Russian front in World War II. His play "Voronezh" commemorates the fatal offensive against the Hungarian Army, launched seventy years ago.

Literary lovers: Béla Balázs and Leni Riefenstahl

It was by mere chance that the Führer's favourite film director made "Triumph of the Will" for the Nazis rather than the Bolsheviks.